Borderlands 4 Speedrunner Discovers Huge Time-Saving Exploit, Begs Devs Not to Patch as the Creative Director Takes Notice

He’s rolling out a crackdown — not to ruin anyone’s fun, but to keep the city safe.

Borderlands 4 has barely been out for a week and change, and the community already found a way to turn a pocket pistol into a jetpack. It’s called Cricket Jumping, it looks ridiculous, and yes, it absolutely works.

The trick: Cricket Jumping

Content creator Admiral Bahroo surfaced the technique with a clip that makes traversal look like a cartoon. The gist: if you’ve got the Noisy Cricket pistol, you can launch yourself across huge chunks of the map in seconds. It’s the kind of speedrun tech that shows up when players start pulling at loose threads, and this one’s surprisingly easy to pull off.

1. Face away from where you want to go (back to your destination) and line yourself up.
2. Tab out of the game.
3. Fire the Noisy Cricket. You’ll slingshot backwards into the sky at absurd speed.

It’s faster than walking and even faster than hopping in a vehicle, so speedrunners are already eyeing it to clear entire sections of the map. Regular players are using it to zip around Kairos like it’s their personal launchpad. It’s also some real inside baseball: the trick hinges on alt-tabbing, which is not exactly a standard control input for traversal.

Will Gearbox patch it?

Creative director Graeme Timmins noticed Bahroo’s post and weighed in on September 20, 2025. The short version: he’s watching it, but he’s not in a hurry to kill the fun unless it breaks something important.

"I've got my eye on this. My only worry is streaming issues or if this introduces instability. Not out to ruin people's fun, but can't have it cause tech issues. For now tho, not going to do anything until proven issues arise."

That’s a pretty reasonable stance: if level streaming or stability goes sideways, it gets the axe; otherwise, go fly. Players seem into that approach, with Bahroo chiming in with a simple 'W dev' and others cheering the let-people-zoom philosophy.

So, should you try it?

If you’ve got the Noisy Cricket, sure. Just know that anything this potent tends to attract the balancing hammer eventually, especially if it starts triggering crashes or weird loading hiccups. For now, though, the studio is letting it ride.

Big picture: Borderlands 4 is in a good place. Performance bumps aside, it’s one of the series’ strongest entries, and little discoveries like this are part of the early-days fun. Here’s hoping Cricket Jumping sticks around long enough for everyone to take a victory lap across Kairos—without turning the game into a stress test.